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Sherard. and others. Hence it was that the new volume contained 

 nearly double the number of species described in its predecessor ; but 

 the latter part of it proves too evidently, says Pulteney on p. 312 of 

 his second volume, that it did not receive the finishing touches from 

 the hand of Morison, for it appears in a very abridged form as com- 

 pared with Mori son's own work. Resj>ecting the preface. Hearne 

 writes in 1705, that ' it must be noted that after Mr. Jacob Bobart had 

 finished his volume of the History of Plants, he writ a preface to it 

 which he shewed to the Delegates of the Press ; but they not approving 

 of it because of the barbarity of the Latin, advised him to get some- 

 body to mend it, and some of them pitched upon Mr. (now Dr.^ 

 Hudson. Accordingly the preface was put into Mr. Hudson's hands, 

 and he drew it up in proper Latin. It was composed as Mr. Hudson 

 worded it, and veiy few copies printed off; particularly there is one 

 of them before Mr. Dyer's copy of the book at Oriel College ; but 

 Bobart, for reasons best known to himself, had quite a different one 

 printed, drawn up partly by himself, partly by others, which is pre- 

 fixed to all the copies except those few mentioned.* 



Hearne makes the following entry under Nov. 6. 1705 : 'Mr. Bobart 

 was greatly assisted in the second volume of the Oxford History of 

 Plants by Mr. Dale of Queen's College, who revised the whole and put 

 it into proper Latin for him.' Dr. Thos. Hyde, Keeper of the Bodleian 

 Library, added annotations on the Eastern names. Bobart's own inter- 

 leaved copy is in the Library of the Botanic Garden at Oxford, where 

 the plants collected by him are also preserved ; among these are some 

 of the plants which were to appear in the volume intended to contain 

 the trees, &c. A MS. volume, giving a short outline of the arrange- 

 ment which was to be followed, and a list of plants, not described 

 but -with names only, is also in the Library of the Garden. It has 

 been already stated that Bobart supplied a list of jslants to Ray's Synopsis ; 

 this list included the following plants ; but, in order to save space, the 

 names under which they are recorded are not cited here, but will be 

 found under the respective species in the text of the Flora : — Leontodon 

 hirtum, Bromns ramosus, a form of Phragmites, Hieracium horeah, and 

 Bromus erectiis. In the second edition of the Synopsis the following 

 plants are given on Bobart's authority : — On p. 161, Scro2yhidaria tiodosa, 

 var. Bobarti, Pryor ; on p. 248, Br achy podium pinnatiwi; on p. 277, 

 Beschampsia /lexuosa ; on p. 286, Quercus Robio; var. femina (Miller), 

 (Q. sessih'Jlora, Salisb.^ ; and on p. 309 a variety of Eiibus corylifolius, Sm. 



Bobart, in his new volume of the Historia, gives a considerable 

 number of plant-records for Berkshire. The additions to the flora of 

 the county are : — Carex Pseudo-cyperns, C. panicea, Acorns Calamus, Caucalis 

 Icdifolia, Galium tricorne, Stachys arvensis. Gentiana Pneuomonanthe, and 

 Cephakmthera pollens. Brosera anglica (not represented in Bobart's herba- 



